1984 vs 2014: ‘George Orwell was an optimist’

The scale and scope of data collection and profiling being carried out by US, British and other intelligence agencies is on a level that the great visionary George Orwell could not have possibly imagined. In this way, Orwell comes off a looking like some sort of optimist.

Although we have been highly critical of TED as a globalist, collectivist, transhumanist and neoliberal softball talking shop, occasionally TED does host a speaker or two that is right on the money.

The video below is one instance of a TED presentation given by Finnish computer security expert, Mikko Hypponen (image, left), that absolutely challenges the corporate and government establishment line – putting to bed any questions about just how criminal and destructive the NSA and GCHQ digital dragnet really is.

The first step is really understanding what it is we are up against, and then know what we can do about it…

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